About the program
CEUs: 1.9 NASM, 1.6 ACE, 5 CIMSPA Endorsed CPD Points
Most fitness enthusiasts believe they already possess the skills necessary to affect change with their clients. While on the surface, this may appear to be true. But when they dive a little deeper, they may realize there is so much more to learn.
Gain the knowledge, skills, and abilities involved in motivating clients to help change health and fitness related behaviors. You'll learn to identify motivational triggers and determine your clients’ greatest barriers to change. At the conclusion of the specialization, you will have the ability to systematically assess and implement behavior change tactics in a progressive approach with application-oriented tools.
Assess your behavior change and client retention skills by answering the questions below:
- What are the 3 stages involved in a goal setting system?
- Should you recommend a number of steps per day to a client?
- When would you use the cognitive behavioral technique "premacking"?
The program includes:
✔ Online Course
✔ eBook
✔ Application videos
✔ Learning Activities
✔ Quizzes
Final Online Exam✔
Table of Contents
Section 1: Behavior Change Coaching
Chapter 1: Introduction to Behavior Change
Learn how to identify and define emerging occupations in the area of wellness and coaching.
Chapter 2: Coaching and Communication
Understand how to define the term coaching in the context of a helping profession and be able to explain the scope of practice involved with the real of the coach. Additionally, you will be able to describe the basic elements of coaching communication along with how learning preferences play a role in achieving coaching outcomes.
Chapter 3: Client Screening and Assessment
Discover Lazarus's multimodal assessment framework and understand client functioning from a multimodal perspective which can help determine appropriate behavior change techniques. This chapter will allow you to be able to explain the importance of identifying the stage of change a client is in to determine the best intervention strategies.
Section 2: Behavior Change Goals & Techniques
Chapter 4: Effective Goal Setting
Understand the importance of goal setting a behavior change technique.
Chapter 5: Behavior Therapy Techniques
Discuss the fundamental concepts of behavior therapy that support long-lasting behavioral change and describe major behavior therapy techniques, including contingency contracting, Premacking, stimulus control, modeling, and relaxation training
Chapter 6: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Understand cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and its techniques relevant to health and fitness. Moreover, determine which CBT self-help strategies are appropriate for each stage of change for health and fitness clients.
Chapter 7: Effective Imagery
Describe how imagery is used to facilitate behavior change in health and fitness along with identifying the functions for which imagery techniques are employed.
Section 3: Other Considerations
Chapter 8: Interpersonal and Social Influences on Behavior Change
Understand social influence as it relates to the adoption of a new behavior and identify social influences that affect adherence to exercise and nutrition programs.
Chapter 9: Professional Practice and Ethics
Familiarize yourself with the benefits to clients and professionals of adhering to a high standard of ethical conduct. Further, differentiate the scope of practice between a wellness professional and a licensed healthcare professional which will allow you to describe conditions under which referrals to other professionals are warranted. You will be able to therefore outline a system to maintain good records of client process through identifying critical ethical standards to which the wellness professionals should adhere.
Final exam
After the completion of the course, you will take an online final exam from the comfort of your own home or wherever you prefer to take tests. The exam consists of 100 questions and there is a time limit of 90 minutes. You must pass with a scaled score of 70% or better.
This course is only available in English.